[webkit-dev] PSA: Migration plan to GStreamer 1.x

[Dumez, Christophe]

Hi,

FYI, WebKit-EFL is now building with gstreamer 1.0 by default [1].

[1] https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=106178

On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 10:09 PM, Ryan Ware <ware at linux.intel.com> wrote:

>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: webkit-dev-bounces at lists.webkit.org [mailto:webkit-dev-
> > bounces at lists.webkit.org] On Behalf Of Simon Hausmann
> > Sent: Tuesday, January 08, 2013 2:10 AM
> > To: webkit-dev at lists.webkit.org
> > Subject: Re: [webkit-dev] PSA: Migration plan to GStreamer 1.x
> >
> > On Tuesday, January 08, 2013 10:21:00 AM Philippe Normand wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > This mail is mainly for the GTK, Qt and EFL port maintainers, I
> > > decided to post here instead of cross-posting to three mailing lists
> > > :)
> > >
> > > So there's been work to port the MediaPlayer and WebAudio GStreamer
> > > backends to the new GStreamer 1.x APIs. At the moment you can choose
> > > (well, for the GTK port at least) at build time if you want to use the
> > > 0.10 or 1.x APIs.
> > >
> > > The issue is that GStreamer 0.10 is no longer actively maintained and
> > > the GStreamer developers/maintainers entirely focus on GStreamer 1.x.
> > >
> > > Moreover we currently don't have the manpower to maintain the 2 code
> > > paths in the WebKit/GStreamer platform layer. The GTK port buildbots
> > > already switched to 1.0 last month and I encourage Qt and EFL to do
> > > the same ASAP, at least for their buildbots.
> > >
> > > I'd like to propose we drop the GStreamer 0.10 support from WebKit
> > > once the next stable branch of GStreamer is released, it will be 1.2,
> > > scheduled somewhere around February.
> >
> > Sounds good to me.
>
> This will also be less problematic from a security perspective in the
> future
> since it will be harder to get security updates for 0.10.
>
> Ryan
>
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Christophe Dumez, PhD
Linux Software Engineer
Intel Finland Oy - Open Source Technology Center
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